OTOH what’s the worst that could happen?

Always better to look for a job while employed

> How could you ever have faith in the company leadership?

Faith in Twitter leadership is off the table at this point - employed or unemployed

I mean events of the last week alone are probably enough. But even in isolation this is just off the scale weird.

OTOH what’s the worst that could happen?

Working more 80 hour weeks?

If you refuse to work 80h/week, what's the worst that could happen? Be fired again?

That's the thing, if you don't trust leadership anymore and they are asking you to come back after firing and going to pay you, that's the ultimate fuck-you: keep working as little as possible while searching for another job. You are getting paid to look for another job by the same leadership that tried to fire you.

It’s a head scratcher for sure. I remember when my employer (large old tech company) laid off one of my coworkers, he or his manager contested it and he got re-hired a month later. Why he went back puzzles me, but he’s still there 6 years later

If the company realizes it and admits it and you had people go to bat for you it makes sense to me to consider it.

But to just randomly throw away 3700 people and they beg (let’s say) 500 with “wait we didn’t mean it, come back” is on a different level.

In the event of a layoff, severance pay and COBRA is your safety net.

Then, it's at-will employment. You can always be terminated with or without cause.

I’m mostly thinking in the “will this company be solvent in 6-12 months” area of faith.

Yes you can be fired any day, but people usually aren’t. They can go many years without it.

This took a week.

How do you know it doesn’t happen again in a month when things are going worse?

And, more importantly, what’s the mental/physical toll of the stress something like this causes after happening once and then hanging over your head for the rest of your tenure?

Twitter is a public company, anyone can go and read their quarterly reports. They also have an investor relations website where you can find some information as well. This information is not a week old.

Are you surprised that a company that is losing money has a reduction in force?